From: "Robert Comer" 

> I would question the corp people who make the decision

I don't have the power to question that.  We're a global company based in
France, and while I have a lot of autonomy, I must be able to exchange info
with everyone.

>because I fail
> to see how a backup strategy can work with microsoft's current mindset?

I'll do what it takes to keep things running, if and when the time comes. 
I don't really see anything I wont be able to deal with coming, my gripe is
that it's going to take more time and cause me more work.

>I
> mean think about it, if you want to stop piracy then one of the things
> that
> you can't allow is restoring a system to a different box then where it was
> backed up. I don't know about you but that's a priority requirement of my
> backup strategy. Hardware fails, you have to be able to restore to a spare
> box but you can't do that with the OS being tied to the box.

That's certainly a problem, but I'm aware of those problems and deal with
them with contingency planning -- either backup hardware or a plan to deal
with it when I don't have the hardware.  There isn't a PC or server in the
company that I couldn't replace quickly if needed.  We don't only depend on
Windows for all of our applications, so the PC's are just fat /
interchangeable clients, so it's not as hard as you are thinking.  I also
don't upgrade machines as a rule, so most important PC's aren't running
anything that has activation.

WinXP isn't a corporate standard, it's a cost issue -- Office is a corp standard...

- Bob Comer


"Geo"  wrote in message
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> "Robert Comer"  wrote in message
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>
>> > Don't look at me, you're the one running XP, I've refused to allow
>> > anything
>> > that requires online activation into the company.
>>
>> No choice in the matter.
>
> I would question the corp people who make the decision then because I fail
> to see how a backup strategy can work with microsoft's current mindset? I
> mean think about it, if you want to stop piracy then one of the things
> that
> you can't allow is restoring a system to a different box then where it was
> backed up. I don't know about you but that's a priority requirement of my
> backup strategy. Hardware fails, you have to be able to restore to a spare
> box but you can't do that with the OS being tied to the box.
>
> Geo.
>
>

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